Final hand of WSOP 1973

[MakeMoneyWork4761]

130,000 first place winnings...."its the richest poker championship that vegas has ever seen" LOL. wow the value of the $ has gone down in just a short 38 years!

[TheTEAMBUTLER]

One day the cards will be kind to me

[DanieINegreanu2323]

@lawuko6419

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[MhStrat]

man I like that guys voice! pretty nostalgic

[FakeAssKilla]

@MhStrat

its nick "the greek" dandalos who played the legendary match against johnny moss

[selfis0007]

A high took that title..... wow

[chupposity]

$10000 buy in was a lot harder to come by in 1973 than it is now. You could almost buy three new cars for $10000 back then.

[tomerp84]

it was 10 000$ buy in?

i think he siad that h won 130 000 $ for first place so i guess buy in was less than 10 000

[chupposity]

I believe there were only 13 players and it was winner take all.

[Element1516]

@tomerp84 no its always been 10,000

[FakeAssKilla]

@Element1516

nope, 1972 it was 5,000$

[hubertandclyde]

@tomerp84 wronggggg

[selfis0007]

all in on a draw?

[mm1k3y]

lmao

[checkfoldcallraise]

was that amarillo slim at 0:55?

[salao8701]

yes

[kroepfl16]

It would be interesting what Johnny M. would have said, when someone would have told him that hundred tousand of peoples will play poker at home at their computers.

You just can´t compare the world of poker of 1973 with nowaday, it´s like the difference beetween day and night.

[zalmi1]

Poker was so different back then. Poker players were looked upon by hard core gamblers with problems, not as a way of life. It's definitely not a lottery now, I don't agree with the comment below mine. Poker has become more of a test of endurance and patience now-a-days. The pros are still there and still win a lot of tourneys, a lot of money, and a lot of bracelets. That's no lottery, that is skill and experience.

[mm1k3y]

nowadays it is more of a lottery... too many people the guy below you is right, even phil hellmuth said it... 6000 thoasand people who all know how to play poker... you need luck mate simple as... in the 80s n 90s the same guy won because there was like 100 players and only 5 of them could play.... lol

[AugiTheGreat1]

@mm1k3y thats why phil cant win anymore his too old school and he will probably never see a win again lol

[res813]

@zalmi1 I don't think they were looked on as problem gamblers. I think they were respected then more than they are now.

[Element1516]

@zalmi1 believe me its a lottery!! the fields are bbigger by like 6 thousand!! even the PROS say its a lottery .. i played in this year 2010 WSOP .. .BELIEEEVVEE me.. its a lottery!! have u even played a tournament?!

[AugiTheGreat1]

@Element1516 i agree 100% the size of these tournys whith the blinds racing behind and the measly chip stacks its all luck

[FakeAssKilla]

@zalmi1

this moron calls a legend like johnny moss (the original rounder who´ve been around at the poker circuit for his whole life) a hardcore gambler whit problems and gets thumbs up?

[AugiTheGreat1]

@FakeAssKilla man shut the fuck up and go troll somewhere else puggy  is one of the great gamblers

[FakeAssKilla]

@AugiTheGreat1

u lil whore, just because i wrote somethiin about moss doesnt mean that puggy was great too.

but however, johnny moss was the number one u lil son of a whore.

i hope ur mommy gets raped by some crackbitches and will die soon, u lil whore.

a slut like your mommy who has born lil ridicilous bastards like u should die immediately

[AugiTheGreat1]

@FakeAssKilla shut the fuck up email me your address lets see how much of a man you really are >?

[girlie347]

Indeed wikipedia says there were 13 players, and the winner took the whole 13.000. Numbers increased slowly, 1982 had 104 players, 1999 had 393. Then the numbers jumped to over 500. In 2003 when Moneymaker won, there were 839 players. Then poker boomed and 2004 had 2576 players, 2005 had 5619 and 2006 had an amazing 8773 players. It´s more of a lottery nowadays.

[666Tormentor666]

Maybe in a tourney like that but for sure not on the long distance...

[gazz12345a]

Man poker totally sucked in those days.

[mixedwrestlingdude]

Two of the greatest. Moss and Pearson are true legends of the game!!

[Kimbre100]

Any internet player? are you stupid

Johhny moss is one of the best of all times

[Poofyponcho]

any internet poker player today would win that wsop with 13 players in it, lol. lets be real.

[rb333]

130,000 pot with 10,000 buy-in? Is that 13- 15 players? I'd say the standards were lower then, but Puggy Pearson is a legend.

[MrCanuck]

"A black spade in the whole" - as opposed to... a blue spade?

[secretbonus]

winner takes all

[HolyDargor]

epic!

[Kevinadam]

I TAKE SOME INSURANCE LOLLL classic

[seven2off]

i think puggy and stu ungar have been the two most involving and fascinating characters in the games history...

and they probably always will be.

love this clip.

[lolly714]

Just because it's more popular doesn't make it better. The control that ESPN and Harrahs has over poker is absurd. Delaying the final table four months is criminal. It is what it is, and that's a bad joke.

[lolly714]

Those were the days when poker players were real outlaws. They lived by their own set of rules and eked out a living by sheer wits and guts. I knew Moss and Puggy and Stuey and just about all the rest. It was a wondrous time without all the corporate idiots that have ruined the texture and fabric of the real deal. ESPN should be ashamed of themselves for the intrusion on the action that they have incurred.

Also Harrahs has done the tournament no favor.

The WSOP has turned into a pathetic joke!

[Bonapart3]

90% agreement from me. Only, ESPN has done so much good for poker, just look at how amazingly fast it has grown. Making superstars out of pokerplayers turned out great.

[pokerfinest]

STFU! because of espn we have so many players playing poker. Because of espn we have 9million dollars for first place. because of espn poker is more of a gentlemen game. I remember those players use to bash the dealers for no reason. Poker was looked at like game meant for degenrates. Now because of ESPN Poker look like a great game to play and respected.

[MrCanuck]

But also because of ESPN we have 10,000 donkeys every year in the WSOP and usually some supersticious asian who doesn't know how to fold a fucking hand goes on to win it all.

[NandiPlop]

Is it Jerry Yang? that donk xD!

[AugiTheGreat1]

@pokerfinest but on the flip side everyone knows the game these days no longer as profitable . i think thats why theirs a big boom in PLO but it won't take long before the game is taken over .. oh well

[jeffw1267]

I like the way they did it in those days, where they didn't take five freakin' minutes to deal out each of the turn and river cards.

[panousis]

thank you for uploading

[carid11]

jajaja magnific !!! ...

[robertorivera987]

yay!

[god3is6dumb]

thanks for this hard to find footage